The Key West Citizen Newspaper, February 27, 1939, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service For 59 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West VOLUME LX. No. 49. Che Key West Cttizen THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U.S. A. Stunt Team Thrills 3,500 At Crowd Of Basin Yesterday ’ \ Recognition For Franco Beautiful Miss Beasley Ex- "PRBAG SMOG, we01xn AND FRANCE ACT cellent Stunter; Captain Larry Mills Gives Profuse Thrills When a boating town such as! Key West enjoys a boating show, that show must fulfill all the re- quirements of fastidious boat-{ knowers and still supply thrills) And that is exactly what the Atlantic | beyond mere boating. Aquatic Stunt Team, sponsored! by the Key West Boat Club, did: yesterday at the Yacht Basin in)’ a shower of spray, whipping mo- r tors, flopping boats, and flying” aquaplanes before a crowd esti-: mated at 3,500 persons. H Key West Boat Club opened | the show with L. P. Artman, Jr.,; carrying an American flag around | the course to the accompaniment; of booming cannon. Then fol- lowed H. A. Duffy in the Sonny | with Wilbert Moehrke and dog! Pup, clown cap ’n all, on the aquaplane. Commodore Leonard ; Roberts then stunted on the! ‘plane and Miss Patricia Shannon! followed, towed by Duke Bowen *n Miss Duke III. MIAME FINALLY: AS WARM AS KEY WEST “This is once that Miami is as warm as Key West during the winter”, G. S. Kennedy, in charge of the Weather Bureau here, said as he handed the temperatures of various places over the coun- try to the editor today. Miami shows a low of 74 and a high of 80 over the last 24 hours and Key West admits the same temperature. Over on the California coast the temperature is much colder with a low of 46 and a high of but 64. Showing again southern Florida’s gre r warmth during northers as compared with California. Many visitors here have remarked on ‘the greater warmth of Florida. Mr. Kennedy and The Citizen reporter this morting were in discussion on a weather point. “When Key West has a low of but 50 and Miami a low of 44 during a norther but Miami goes to a high of 64 and Key West to a high of 62, which is the warmer place?” the reporter asked. Mr. Kennedy an- swered by stating that Key West was warmer in the morning and Miami warmer at the short period of high temperature. He pointed out, however, that this showed a more equable climate in the Island City. CII ISIS LS SI SOS Trick and fancy boat driving, which stood the fast outboard on| CUBA ARRIVES end and low on all sides, opened | the Atlantic Aquatic Stunt Team} show, and had Mills, Coxe, Harri-| son and Miss Beasley in the boat. | With Jack Jacks piloting Carl) King lifted high above the water} FROM TAMPA Steamship Cuba, of the P. and on the high stilts and twisted and! O. S. §; Co, arrived. thi morn- bent over the waves and boiling! ing from Tampa and St. Peters- wake. burg, with eight tirst and two Captain Larry Mills, one of the! second cabin passengers for Key most daring stunters in the coun- West, and 176 passengers for Ha- try, then exhibited in fancy ski’ rid | vana. sliding well over behind) Key West arrivals: R. O. Low, the racing boat and even taking yrs Low, C. A. Robertson, Mrs. off one ski and waving it in the| Robertson, C. Gallowreky, W. air, with the climax two amazing! price W. R. Menzellberg, R. L. jumps off the eight-foot high! steelc, Harry Bravo, Joe Hen- jump stationed in the center of piquez. the Basin. The crowd broke in-| Tisted on the manifest of the to a cheer and auto horns tooted! Cyba were the following item | AT NEARLY SAME TIME { i (By Associated Press) i LONDON, Feb. 27.—Great | Britain and France today gave irecognition to Rebel Spain at, |nearly the same time. | Prime Minister Neville Cham- ‘ berlain told the British Parlia- ment that General Franco now had control of the majority of |Spanish territory and that the ' country could do nothing else |but recognize that government. ; | French Council Minister made the announcement in Paris. (Ry Associated Press) wrernesecbesevoces | HENDAYE.—From _authorita- tive sources plans for evacuating | French troops from the Madrid 'area were said to be approved by’ Premier Negrin of Spain. The Madrid area will possibly be the ‘next area to be attacked by Gen- eral Franco and his Rebel army. | JERUSALEM.—A British plan to create an Arab state in the | Holy Land resulted in more riot-. , ing yesterday with 30 Arabs kill- | ed and 45 Arabs and Jews wounded. Hl WASHINGTON. — Peace be-: tween the rival CIO and AFL unions, which is desired by Presi- } ‘dent Roosevelt, is considered. | highly improbable today as plans| for a truce bogged down. It was; stated by many inside sources that one of the reasons why this} could not be done was that too, many of the important leaders! of the rival unions would lose their jobs. “f i WASHINGTON. President Roosevelt will return from the} Caribbean maneuvers March 4. | AUSTIN, Texas.—A strip of land approximately 150 miles long and about 500 feet wide is owned by neither Oklahoma nor Texas and residents on the area! do not know to which state they belong. showed that the boundaries of MONDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1939 KEY WEST, FLORIDA, | Fortune Says No Roosevelt POLL - SHOWS ROOSEVELT WILL NOT BE ELECTED AGAIN e eoccees! Batista To Cuba | Secccccccececce CO SDeSesoocoocesccesesecesoocer (My Associated Press) | WASHINGTON, Feb. 27.—As/ |President F. D. Roosevelt watch- | 'ed the first major battle of the {Caribbean maneuvers aboard the (Cruiser Houston, Fortune Maga- | ;zine today came out with the! ‘poll that his election is not pos- | ‘sible next year. In Washington political circles; jthe claim is that 21 states will! ;go Republican. The only possi- j ibility for reelection, the Fortune poll mentioned, is if the Presi-} dent’s opposing political camps | split among themselves. The Fortune poll also pointed out that no other New Deal can: ididate was in a position for elee: tion to the presidency. . D.AR. MEMBERS * At Havana Homecoming for Col. Fulgencio Batista (with medals) on return from a visit to Mexico City, he was surrounded by crowds at the presidential palace. While at Mexico City the army chief spoke of close ties be-} tween Cuba, U. S. and Mexico. Officers Make Raid On La Conga Club Sunday... ccocccc ve sum |chapter, D.A.R., will be in Key! West tomorrow afternoon to of-' ficiate at the presentation of; ‘awards in connection with na-) tion-wide contest being conduct- | ed by that organization: aiming at} Good Citizenship. Mrs. E. G.} Sewell will present the awards Be TO OFFICIATE AT PRESEN-| TATION OF CONTEST | AWARDS | Raoul Garcia Placed Un- WALTER HERMANN der Arrest On Charge Of ARRESTED HERE Operating Game CHARGED WITH ILLEGALLY ! | {sembly at 1 o’clock. i | REMAINING HERE OVER | Following procedure as designat- cc rarer | led by the Daughters of the a’ Congo Club, operated ‘by TIME PERMITTED |American Revolution organiza-| ae tion, the seniors of . Key- West Frank Sabini at the corner. of High School recently voted for Walter Hermann, baker at a their candidates in the contest, local hotel, was arrested Satur-\ with these four points observed: surprise day afternoon by officers of the 1. Dependability; 2. Service; 2 U. S. Immigration Service, on a 3, Leadership; 4. Patriotism. party yesterday morning when charge of illegally remaining Bonnie Mae Watkins was first, over the time permitted by his and will receive a gold medal at; Chance Fitzpatrick and Front streets, was the scene of a COMING TO CITY, Records revealed today! “at 2:45 o'clock deputies from the ' sheriff's office entered the place and arrested Raoul Garcia who, (it is charged, was i operating a i game of craps. entry permit. the assembly tomorrow. Second Hermann ‘is to be taken be- and third places were captured fore Claude Albury, in.charge of by Anita Berkowitz and Phyllis the local immigration bureau,| Adams, who will receive Good, this afternoon and the results| Citizenship Certificates. | will be sent to Washington for, The name of Miss Watkins will action by the Federal authorities. be placed with other state-wide loudly on each jump. With Mills at the wheel “Hand- some” Milton Coxe then took the aquaplane to give a startling. ex- hibition of throwing the board out over the water at high speed from the lash of the boat. Stand- ing he shot far out on the “whip” again and again. “Gay Nineties” | Key West, 33 tons of freight, five sacks of mail and one automo- {bile; Havana, 160 sacks of mail. The vessel sailed shortly after !11 o'clock for Havana with 142 | first cabin and one second cabin | passengers booking at Key West, land also four auiomobiles placed | the two states leave the small ae esp lcemicu ata esbentts area between them. . Most of the ;office this morning that sus-| TAYLOR FUNERAL residents are Texans and would | picion had been directed against HELD SATURDAY like to be under that state’s : : government, The Department of the establishment and _ officers Interior wants the minerals in the had been biding their time to Funeral services land given over to the govern- make entry at the unexpected sf for Colonel winners in a box at the conven- |tion of D.A.R. next month—the winning name to receive a free trip to Washington, D. C., as a guest of the organization later this year. i TENDER IVY | ‘ing 1937-38, a general election| Key West, Florida, has the most equable climate in the country; with an average range of only 14° Fahrenheit PRICE FIVE CENTS Former Governor Of Ohio Myers: Geoper With Visit To’ . ecccccgreseseseesooooocs UKRAINIAN STATE? Key West All Members Making Up Party Guests Of Dr. And Mrs. John Brown At Casa Marina ! | Visiting Key West for the first time. former Governor Myers Y. | Cooper. of Ohio, whose home is ‘at Cincinnati, yesterday express- led to The Citizen his sincere de- ‘light with the climate and natural i beauties of the city and promised |t0 leave his winter residence at |Coral Gables more frequently in ithe future to visit this island. UKRAINIAN STATE is en- visioned by Monsignor Aug- ustin Volosin (above), pre- mier of autonomous Carpa- tho-Ukraine. | With former Gov. Cooper were | Mrs. Cooper, Arthur Johnson, co- | publisher of The Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch, and Mrs. Johnson, who i L REV ‘were the guests Saturday night SCHOO ENUE land Sunday at Casa Marina of Dr. and Mrs. John E. Brown, Co- ,lumbus, who are spending the season here. Mr. Cooper long has been one of the leading builders the country. He built a large portion of Coral Gables back in the boom days and has constructed thou- sands of homes in Ohio and else- where. As an experienced real- TALLAHASSEE, Feb. 27.— fee oe 5 : tor, Mr. Cooper quickly set Key Florida school revenue declined ‘ 9 | West down as a resort city with $1,795,000 during the last school .. ” di t t ‘a great future”. me, according iy ad of} Liberal-Mindea Het sais ane by! Former Gov. Cooper is one of ‘ Ep eapen a encests Col MB" the leading members of the inner lish. fo = . School ti circle of the Repubiican party, is aeani ma ioaag See Go) iea,| liberal-minded in his view to- ions. was 1,330,! less cS A during the year’ 1937-38 than! W2td the policies that should be the previous year. This decrease @d0pted in restoring prospertity of 66 percent is attributed prin-|andsis in constant demand cipally to the operation of the; public speaker on economic and Murphy act. | political questions. His _ last Prior to the removal of the|speech was delivered Feb. 13 at poll tax as a requirement for Oklahoma City where he addre: voting, the schools collected at|ed 1000 Republicans from all sec- least $300,000 on a general elec-} tions of that state in observation tion year from this source. Dur-; of Lincoln Day. Questioned as to his views on year, collections from poll taxes! the recent elections, the former were only $54,000. |chief executive of Ohio declared Current county and district tax, there is a definite swing toward collections were almost exactly|a return of the Republican party the same as the previous year! to power in national affairs. Mr. and were $96,000 less than the! Cooper also remarked in passing SHOWS DECLIN | MAKE COMPARISON OF REV-' ENUE FOR MONROE INSTI. | TUTIONS IN PAST of (Special to The Citizen) r a ment. ‘hour and make a round up. the Hugh K. Taylor, U. S. Army, re-| |year 1935-36. There was an in-| that Thomas E. Dewey, “the rac- George Fay in quite an outdated bathing suit and in often strange | postures kept the large and ap-j preciate crowd roaring through-! out the number. Later Fay even seized upon a table, tied it up and mounted it, splashing and thumping over the water. Beautiful, blind Miss Leila Mae Beasley ir a, gorgeous pink ruf- led bathing costume, with Larry Mills, skidded around the Basin together on skis. Miss Beasley mounted on Mills’ shoulders high into the air to the cheers of the crowd. Once they toppled from the strain of the taut ropes and bouncing waves but mounted twice again. On her favorite skis, Miss Beasley then showed how much at ease she was on them, taking one and then the other off while planing behind. Jumping and leaping out of water also showed her dexterity. One of the highlights was the trapeze act with Mills and King bearing the trapeze bar and Mil- ton Coxe in Scotch plaid bathing | Abiler , Atlanta | Boston Buffalo Charleston Chicago | Denver Detroit | Galveston Havana , Huron | Jacksonville | Kansas City 'KEY WEST Little Rock Los Angeles , Louisville |} Miami | Mpls.-St. P. - . New Orleans iNew Yorkjags40 Pensacola jon the vessel here. } TEMPERATURES Peeecccccoscecsecocscoes Lowest Station— last Highest night Jast 24 hours 46 68 64 52 40 70 30 30 28 60 44 70 44 80 44 64 38 80 36 62 52 62 18 54 70 26 62 26 74 38 46 36 74 22 48 54 Early Sunday morning é 5 ROBERT DANIELS move was decided on ‘and Chief tized, who died at his home in ! Martello Towers subdivision Deputy Bernard Waite and A s Deputy Ray Elwood made plans shortly .after midnight Friday, ‘were held Saturday afternoon 4 for the entrance which had been : \so carefully mapped out that clock from St.-Paul’s Episcopal |CHARGED WITH OPERATING there was not the slightest chance ,Church. Rev. Arthur B. Dim- for any mishap occurring to Mick, officiated. PARTY BOAT WITH- frustrate their plans. Full military honors were ac- OUT LICENSE Both officers entered the place corded the deceased. Two squads ‘simultaneously and even had/0f soldiers and the full colors, there been any disposition on! Were in attendance at the funeral the part of the operator or those The soldiers acted in the capacity taking part in the game to cover| of a firing squad. up, the presence of the law! aa proved a deterrent factor in any | Honorary pallbearers were: effort in any event. | Major General King, General A. At the sheriff's office ,this \C. Dalton, Col. Houston, Col. F. morning it was said that chip’s,!B. Edward, Col. L. C. Brinton. (markers, money and dice were Lieutenant-Col. J. D. MacMullen, !captured as a result of the round and Lieut.-Col. Snydow. up of the dice game, and as OWES GUY W. ATKINS Robert M. Daniels was ‘raigned in the court of County Judge Raymond R. Lord, this morning, on a charge of operat- ing a fishing party boat without the necessary license as required by the law. | Appearing against the arrested party were the following mem- bers of the State Conservation ‘Board, C. W. Gaskill. B. Russell, Earl Jackson and F. Crosland, ar- ; there was a lay-out handy for playing black jack, cards . and |chips for this gartfe were seized | by the officers. | Purposes, as a result of special} viction Tender Ivy, of the lighthouse! departmet, sailed yesterday for) Tampa;Bay and vicinity to re- place buoys, relight aids to navi- i gation, and recharge those buoys ' whose containers are in need of replenishing. ! Carried on the vessel was a! quanity of material, which will be used in the construction of lights in that vicinity. These structures are to be built by con- tract. Tender Poinciana, which was at Port of Palm Beach, was to} leave today for Lake Okeechobee, | provided less than one percent of | to replace beacons. | ‘HARTRIDGE PAYS | VISIT TO CITY | crease of $103,000 in racing com- i LEFT SUNDAY '22:::: funds available for school! New York, as a result of his con- acts of the last legislature to aid schools in certain counties, Funds from all sources avail- able for schools during 1937:38 {o- | taled $22,587,817. In 1936-37’ the total was $24,372,600, and in 1935-36 this total was $23,159,- 542. State sources provided 52 per- cent of all revenue. Local county and district sources available for support and maintenance of schools provided 30 percent of the total. Local revenue for debt service wa¢ 17 percent. Other sources, including federal funds, the total. Total revenue for Monroe coun- ty schools and school debt service was $106,075 in 1937-38 and $109,- 668 in 1936-37. TEETH SNAPPED | ket-busting district attorney of of Tammany — Leader James J. Hines, loomed as a |strong Republican _ presidential | candidate. Change Nation-Wide “It will be’ remembered the |change in sentiment in the last jelections was not local, but na- | tion-wid , former Gov. Cooper }stated. “The average” man is |more interested in good times | than in partisanship politics, but | when he struggles along for six years with impractical’ schemes ‘and unworkbale experiments that inet an added debt of 19 billions, ‘with relief rolls mounting and unemployed at ten million per- 'sons, he begins to think soberly as to’where the country is head- ed. “Business is the backbone of 'recovery, yet there has been but little to encourage business to ‘expand, cut loose and take a who have been in the city for Raoul Garcia was placed un- chance—thus increasing employ- trunks turning over and over it around the course. High into the air Mills then hurtled over the jump, this time with an aqua- plane, and spraying water far out on both sides, whipping his aqua- ‘Washington plane all over the Basin. ‘Williston “Reckless” George Fay, trying, for a new world’s jumping rec-| ord, barely made the top of the} oes jump, then sat down on it ina! plTTSBURGH—Told by a fed- surprise comic skit. Coxe and eral judge in this city that he Mills followed with a surprising would be freed on a charge of double ski ride. Harrison and‘ operating an illicit whisky still Fay were towed behind, one with|if he promised to quit drinking, an aquaplane, the other with a/John R. Gray replied: “Never, tilt aquaplane, to close the show. |sir.” He was jailed. St. Louis . 32 Salt Lake City .6 San Francisco: 46 | Seattle Tampa 38 28 60 46 78 58 30 WOULD NOT QUIT EXCELLENT OVERNIGHT ACCOMMODATIONS.--FT. JEFFERSON CRUISES--$10 ALL EXPENSE TWO-DAY TOUR...PRICE TOURS 505 ATTAINS HONORS (Special to The Citizen? LEWISBURG, Pa., Feb. 27.— 'Guy West Atkins, son of Mr. and ee )Mrs. E. W. Atkins, 409 Margaret fishing boats and vessels similar- AH members of the Improved street, Key West, has been in- ly occupied, and last week, on Order of Red Men\and Degree of vited to become a member of the Thursday, there appeared in this’ Pocahontas in Florida, are in-‘Bucknell University chapter of paper an article giving the salient | vited and requested to be present ‘Phi Eta Sigma, honorary scholas- parts of the laws regarding this at‘a Special Meeting to be held tic fraternity for freshman men type of boats. at the Red Men Hall, 3819 North who have attained an average After the hearing this morn- | Miami Ave., Miami, Wednesday. of 85 per cent in the first semes- ing, and conning over the testi-|Mareh Ist, at 8 P. M., to hear ter’s work. mony as given, Judge Lord the Great Incohonee, Edward C.| A graduate of the Pelham, N. placed the defendant under bond Levey of San Francisco. Y., Memorial High School, At- of $250 for his appearance at the! G. A. LUNDQUIST, kins is enrolled in the Electrical next term of Criminal Court. ffebaeez7.1¢39 Great Sachem. ' Engineering curriculum. more than one week in the inter- der a bond of $150 for pre- ests of the conservation board. (liminary hearing before Peace, Several articles have appeared | Justice Franklin Arenberg. in The Citizen relative to the necessity of securing the proper license for the operation 6f party NOTICE | 3 i | LOS ANGELES — Doctors of! L'Engle Hartridge, field super-| this city took three stitches in| | visor for the Florida State Un-|the hand of G. H. Janeway, who! employment Service, is a visitor| was bitten by a shark in a hotel| ; in the city today and was calling lobby. The fish, a skeleton; wasi0Mly way it can be done—by this morning‘at the office of Wil-|on exhibition, and when Janeway/Putting an end to expenditures liam V. Little, in charge of local | placed his hand in its mouth, the/that come under the head of ex- ' activities. |teeth snapped. | travangance and waste in the es- Mr. Hartridge says he is a na-| sential functions of government. tive Floridian but this is the first | | “Bills of lading are better busi- visit he has ever paid to Key} 'ness barometers than bills of West. What struck him as vane Ahern Funeral Home iczisiation. Cooperation on the unusual, he said, was the large| ft jpart of government instead . of number of people he encountered; Joseph L. Plummet competition, tax reduction in- on Duval street Saturday night, Vice-President | stead of increased debts and def- and the fact that every one seem- AMBULANCE SERVICE licits, government regulation in- ed to be happy and enjoying Phone 22211 Miami, Fla. | stead of strangulation, and, final- , themselves to the utmost. (Continued on Page Six) ent. “The time has come to reduce the cost of government by the | DUVAL STREET--PHONE 124